Talk:Itaconic acid

IUPAC name
I think the IUPAC name 2-Methylidenebutanedioic acid is wrong. It should be 2-Methylenesuccinic acid or 2-Methylenebutanedionic acid. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Anneli2 (talk • contribs) 13:54, 4 October 2011 (UTC)
 * I disagree.  and ChemSpider report "2-Methylidenebutanedioic acid" as the IUPAC name and systematic name, respectively.  -- Ed (Edgar181)

Some additional research - immunoregulatory metabolite behavior
These recent articles in Nature describe its role as an anti-inflammatory metabolite and evidence of inhibition of IL-17 and IκBζ that may be significant. doi:10.1038/s41586-018-0052-z and doi:10.1038/nature25986 Phil (talk) 18:45, 19 April 2018 (UTC)

Ball-and-stick model rotated 180 degrees relative to skeletal formula
Perhaps this is a common issue in Wikipedia chemical articles, but I could not help but noticing the ball-and-stick representation is rotated 180 degrees (in the plane) relative to the skeletal formula. Obviously it is still correct, but perhaps it is helpful for non-experts if the two representations are shown in the same orientation?

MagnusPalmblad (talk) 09:22, 23 September 2020 (UTC)

The skeletal model is different than the ball and stick model
The skeletal model cited in the visual link (and also in other representational resources) is decidely different in attachments at C2 and C3 from the ball and stick model, which has the attachments reversed at those two sites.

I do not know enough programing to make changes to the ball and stick model to make it agree with the skeletal model. Nurture123 (talk) 14:25, 1 June 2024 (UTC)